I’ve been gardening since I was about seven years old and that was a while ago. It’s getting more important in my mind as climate change and worldwide economic uncertainties loom. If you can garden, you are more versatile.

Not to mention the delicious taste of fresh fruits and vegetables!

In 2015, my husband Kelly and I moved from a short growing season in a cold part of Colorado to a town in New Mexico with a much longer growing season, partly because it’s lower in elevation. We bought a house with a yard that is a quarter of an acre of not-quite-level land. The soil needs a lot of work, and we started some worm bins for our compost. Kelly dug swales  across the back yard to keep at least some of the rainwater in the yard. The swales also help when we use city water to irrigate the garden we’re putting in.

He also built a greenhouse where I am doing a lot of container gardening. 

Chickens and llamas are the two kinds of livestock that my husband Kelly and I have raised. I’ve written some about beekeeping on this site, as I got curious about it, but we never did keep bees. Other homesteading animals that people raise may turn up in this section as well.

I blog about all this and more. Take a look around!